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Offered wages

West Virginia University — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on West Virginia University's certified labor condition applications — 78 positions — grouped into $5,000 bands and cut by occupation and by metro. Percentiles are computed from those bands at read time.

Full filing record
Median offered wage
$100,667

Interpolated inside a $5,000 band, so it reads as a point in a range rather than a salary anyone was paid.

78 disclosed positions

25th percentile
$83,750

A quarter of disclosed positions were offered less than this.

75th percentile
$118,750

A quarter of disclosed positions were offered more than this.

Occupations
19

Distinct SOC codes with at least one disclosed wage.

All disclosed wages

The whole distribution, every occupation together. The dashed line is the median, derived from these bands.

West Virginia University — offered wage distributionWest Virginia University: wage distribution across 78 disclosed positions, from $60k to $250k, median $100,667.median $101k$60k$250k

25th $83,750 · median $100,667 · 75th $118,750 · 78 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

By occupation

Each SOC code the employer filed under, with its own percentiles derived from its own bands.

Percentiles are computed per occupation from that occupation's bands. They do not average to the figure above, and they are not supposed to — the all-occupations figure is the summed distribution, not the mean of these rows.
Occupation (SOC)Disclosed positions25thMedian75thPrevailing wage level
25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary49$92,708$103,036$126,875I 49
25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary3$88,750$96,250$98,125I 1 · II 2
25-1022.00 · Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary3$63,750$92,500$111,250I 3
25-1063.00 · Economics Teachers, Postsecondary2$111,250$112,500$113,750I 2
15-1252.00 · Software Developers2$111,250$112,500$113,750III 2
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists2$87,500$90,000$92,500I 1 · II 1
15-1299.08 · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects2$77,500$80,000$97,500II 1 · III 1
25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary2$77,500$80,000$152,500I 2
15-2041.00 · Statisticians2$76,250$77,500$78,750I 2
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists2$66,250$67,500$68,750I 2
15-2041.01 · Biostatisticians1$121,250$122,500$123,750I 1
11-9033.00 · Education Administrators, Postsecondary1$101,250$102,500$103,750II 1
25-1054.00 · Physics Teachers, Postsecondary1$91,250$92,500$93,750I 1
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists1$86,250$87,500$88,750II 1
25-1041.00 · Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary1$81,250$82,500$83,750I 1
25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary1$76,250$77,500$78,750III 1
15-1299.02 · Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians1$71,250$72,500$73,750II 1
19-2012.00 · Physicists1$71,250$72,500$73,750I 1
13-1111.00 · Management Analysts1$66,250$67,500$68,750I 1

Rows with fewer than 5 disclosed positions are shown because they are real filings, but a percentile over that few offers is an anecdote rather than a range. The disclosed-position column is there so you can tell which is which.

Largest occupations in detail

The same bands, drawn. Shape matters: two occupations with the same median can pay very differently at the edges.

25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary49 disclosed positions · 10 metros

West Virginia University — 25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary — offered wage distributionWest Virginia University — 25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary: wage distribution across 49 disclosed positions, from $60k to $250k, median $103,036.median $103k$60k$250k

25th $92,708 · median $103,036 · 75th $126,875 · 49 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

By metro area

The same wages cut by where the work is, from the metro half of each stored band key.

Only bands recorded against a named city and state appear here, so these rows can sum to less than the total above.
Metro areaDisclosed positions25thMedian75thOccupations
Morgantown, WV55$91,094$101,500$113,25018
Parkersburg, WV7$64,375$118,750$153,1251
Martinsburg, WV4$81,250$82,500$83,7501
Beckley, WV2$62,500$65,000$77,5002
Charleston, WV2$97,500$100,000$152,5001
Ashburn, VA1$76,250$77,500$78,7501
Fairmont, WV1$91,250$92,500$93,7501
Inwood, WV1$81,250$82,500$83,7501
Irving, TX1$76,250$77,500$78,7501
Princeton, WV1$121,250$122,500$123,7501
South Charleston, WV1$121,250$122,500$123,7501
Vienna, WV1$76,250$77,500$78,7501
Wheeling, WV1$121,250$122,500$123,7501

Prevailing wage levels

Level I is entry, level IV is fully competent and independent. The level sets the legal floor the offered wage has to clear.

A level-heavy split toward I and II means the roles were filed as junior, whatever the job title says.
LevelPositionsShare
Level I6785.9%
Level II79.0%
Level III45.1%

Wages here are the OFFERED WAGE on the labor condition application — a commitment the employer made to the Department of Labor, not anyone’s actual compensation, and it excludes bonus and equity. Every percentile on this page is computed at render time from stored $5,000 band counts (78 positions); no median is stored anywhere in the dataset. How the derivation works.